budgets

U.S. federal budget balances and forecasts

U.S. federal budget projections and actual outcomes from 1980 through 2010. Originally analyzed by The New York Times in 2010. Reveals how budget forecasts made in any given year compared to what actually happened, with positive values indicating surpluses (briefly seen around 2000) and negative values representing deficits (reaching a particularly large value of -$1.78 trillion during the 2008-2009 financial crisis).

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Fields

FieldTypeDistributionSummaryMissing
budgetYear

The year for which the budget outcome is being reported

 integer 1,980 – 2,010 · mean 1,997 Missing 0
forecastYear

The year for which the budget was forecast

 integer 1,980 – 2,020 · mean 1,999 Missing 0
value

The budget outcome or projection value (in trillions of 2010 dollars)

 number -1.78 – 0.519 · mean -0.194 Missing 0

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budgetYearforecastYearvalue
19801980-0.103
19801981-0.037
198019820.01
198019830.051
19811980-0.192

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